Pope Francis greets visitors from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Sept. 20, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of ...

Three weeks ago, on Oct. 5, Pope John Paul II canonized two 19th-century missionaries together with Blessed Daniel Comboni, the first bishop of Central Africa. The Register reported on the event in a ...

Rome (Fides Service) – Founded in 1867 by Blessed Daniel Comboni (1831-1881) who will be canonised on 5 October, the Comboni missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCI) are today in all 1,823 working on ...

Pope Francis extolled Wednesday the “apostolic zeal” of St. Daniele Comboni, an Italian missionary priest and bishop who fought to end slavery in Africa. Comboni witnessed “the horror of slavery” as a ...